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daile

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A word coined from daiļš(“beautiful”) +‎ -e by A. Kronvalds in 1868, following the model of Lithuaniandailė(“art”). Kronvalds proposed a number of other derivations from daiļš, of which only daile was retained in the (poetic) literary language, not with his intended basic meaning, “art” (which is usually māksla), but rather “beauty.”[1]